Moderate Schmoderate

The Rapid City Journal has an article today calling Dist. 33 Democrat senate candidate Dennis Finch a "moderate Democrat."

The article notes that he opposes abstinence based sex ed and teaching anything other than the religion of evolution.

It also says he wants to spend more money on education, which in political circles is a euphemism for throwing more money at the bureaucracy without any standards for improvement.

Also mentioned is his desire for a "blue-ribbon task force" to address South Dakotans without health insurance. Forgetting that many people don't even want to throw their money down the insurance hole, this is another political euphemism for support of socialized medicine--which has proved to be a joke in other countries such as Canada and the UK (I lived in England for 3 years, so I've experienced it firsthand).

While I doubt his opponent, Republican Dennis Schmidt, is a moderate either, it doesn't look like Finch is any more a "moderate" than I am.